> You can't be good at programming and bo (sic) good at managing. I don't think they are mutually exclusive. Sure, being good at programming doesn't imply you'

> You can't be good at programming and bo (sic) good at managing. I don't think they are mutually exclusive. Sure, being good at programming doesn't imply you'll be good at managing. But there are plenty of great programmers who successfully > Programming is not a dead end job, if every company like google, atlassian or github does, I mean paying well their developers and treating this as a real profession. I don't buy this. Even at Google, there is a psychological cap on how much engineers can make—you'll never see a programmer pulling in, say, $10M a year. That's the point: as a programmer, there is a society-wide cap on your pay, some level at which you will eventually plateau. As a manager, there is no such cap: you can eventually be the CEO.